Posted on 07/25/2009 6:18:33 AM PDT by NYer
Same math for the new "Health" Care System for America. The only question is which Marxist will implement the new plan first.
Actually, the US looks tempting, as we imported many of those baby girls in our Adoption mills.
“By 2050, over 438 million Chinese will be over the age of 60.”
Not if they exercise Obama-style health care, where seniors are not provided costly services that would be provided to the young, “productive” members of society.
As we age, one thing or another afflicts us. With proper medical care, most of those afflictions can be overcome and the senior’s life extended. Without proper care, the illness exacerbates and takes the person’s life sooner. Presto! Problem solved.
All China (or the USA) has to do it cut back services to seniors, and it will lessen the burden of the productive young.
There IS at least a purported history in China of abandoning old people who become a burden on their families. The oldster would be brought out to the distant forest and just left there to fend for him/herself. Whether those stories are historically accurate, I don’t know, but do remember hearing them some time ago.
And then they'll find that this new policy's effects will show up down the road and their yank the thermostat back the other way, increasing the problematic oscillations, "youth culture" notwithstanding.
LSN gets a lot wrong, but at least they are pointing out that this is a local anomaly, and it's obvious that this "youth culture" and prosperity are tied to lower birth rates.
Of course, it means things collapse in 50 years, but the ChiCom leadership would be dead, and they didn't care what happened after that. Their computation was that they would reap the benefits, but not be around for when the costs appeared.
They’re welcome to scour the streets of Philly for...Mexicans.
They need only look at Russia to grasp China's future. Russia decimated its population with abortion. It has become an unstoppable form of birth control. Russia is now scrambling to undo the damage, encouraging people to have children. Alas, it's too little, too late. Like Europe, the family structure has collapsed and it will take centuries to build it up again. I recall communist years when children were taken away from their parents and raised by the government. Now the Russian gov't is encouraging the Orthodox Churches to open up schools.
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So, it appears, Shanghai will need to allow a greater migration of people within China (and maybe even outside of China) to immigrate to Shanghai. Migration of young people, that is.
They need to life the restriction in areas where people want to have mulitiple children and then allow them to migrate to Shanghai. And even from surrounding countries such as India, Thailand, N. Korea, Pakistan, Vietnam, etc.
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